AND SOCIAL SCIENCE Origin and Purpose. The Academy was organized December 14, 1889, to provide a national forum for the discussion of political and social questions. The Academy does not take sides upon controverted questions, but seeks to secure and present reliable information to assist the public in forming an intelligent and accurate opinion. Publications. The Academy publishes annually six issues of its "Annals" dealing with the six most prominent current social and political problems. Each publication contains from twenty to twenty-five papers upon the same general subject. The larger number of the papers published are solicited by the Academy; they are serious discussions, not doctrinaire expressions of opinion. Meetings. The Academy holds five scientific sessions each year during the winter months, and it also has an annual meeting in April, extending over two full days and including six sessions. The papers of permanent value presented at the meetings are included in the Academy publications. Membership. The subscription price of THE ANNALS or the American Academy of Political and Social Science is $6.00 per year. Single copies are sold at $1.00 each. THE ANNALS are sent to all members of the Academy, $4.00 (or more) of the annual membership fee of $5.00 being for a subscription to the publication. Membership in the Academy may be secured by applying to the Secretary, 36th street and Woodland Avenue, Philadelphia. The membership fee is $5.00; life membership fee, $100. Members not only receive all the regular publications of the Academy, but are also invited to attend and take part in the scientific meetings, and have the privilege of applying to the Editorial Council for information upon current political and social questions. L. S. ROWE, President. THROUGH SIMPLIFIED LEGAL PROCEDURE The Annals VOLUME LXXIII SEPTEMBER, 1917 Editors in Charge of this Volume: CARL KELSEY, Ph.D. Professor of Sociology, Wharton School of Finance and Commerce and HENRY W. JESSUP, J. D. Chairman, Committee of Nine, Phi Delta Phi Club THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE PHILADELPHIA |